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Partnerschaft mit Indien: Counsellor Science & Technology
der indischen Botschaft zu Gast am ILK

Tour of the ILK's experimental facilities: (from left to right) Dr. Angelos Filippatos in conversation with Dr. Madhusudan
Prof. Niels Modler, Maike Heitkamp-Mai, Dr. Madhusudan Reddy Reddy Nandineni.
Nandineni, Kaushik Ganesh Abhyankar and Dr. Angelos Filippatos.

India – with almost 1.4 billion people the second most In consideration of the constantly growing population,
populous country and largest democracy in the world - minimising the impact of human activity on the environ-
has developed rapidly in recent decades. Therefore, India ment is becoming a crucial issue. In particular, noise, air
plays a key role in the fight against climate change, among and water pollution as well as waste management have
other things. Especially in the field of science and technol- become one of the greatest global challenges. Managing
ogy, there are long and intensive relations with Germany, these tasks requires extensive transnational cooperation
and also with the TU Dresden. Students from India are between societies with their different stages of develop-
among the largest groups of international students at TU ment, linguistic diversity and cultural backgrounds, as well
Dresden. There are active interdisciplinary collaborations as their local problems and convictions. The DAAD pro-
with several Indian universities and research institutions, ject “Combating Enviromental Pollution throught Inter-
and these cooperations shall be expanded in the future. nalisation of Education” (COMPOLL) wants to achieve a
better understanding of the challenges, deficits and pos-
On 20 August 2021, the Counsellor for Science & Tech- sible solutions regarding environmental consciousness
nology of the Indian Embassy in Germany: Dr. Madhusu- in Germany and India. The application and cooperation
dan Reddy Nandineni, was a guest at TU Dresden in order partners are the ILK and the Indian Institute of Technol-
to exchange views on current and future joint projects. In ogy Delhi (IIT Delhi). The project intends to increase the
this context, he was also welcomed at the ILK. During his awareness of topics such as reducing plastic waste, re-
visit, Dr. Reddy was introduced to the current research cycling or sustainable design strategies and, against this
as well as the international activities of the ILK and en- background, strengthen the partnership between TU
joyed a tour of our test facilities. Dr. Reddy's visit to the Dresden and India.
Institute summed up the results of the Indo-German co-
operation in the COMPOLL project and opened up new
perspectives for our cooperation with Indian universities,
companies and public institutions.

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